Lunatic

be the winner, he said, we could forget all that claptrap about "compassionate conservatism." The man wasn't a conservative. He was an ideologue of the extreme right, and the instant he was sworn into office, the government would be controlled by lunatics. Just one week before the election, Aurora finally surfaced— only to vanish again within thirty seconds. Contact came in the THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES 245 form of a telephone call to Tom, but no one was in the apartment that morning, and

demand reports from you? God knows what affairs and plans you may have in your head, or what ideas may be born there; so why should I nudge your arm and ask what you're thinking about? And now I'm...Ah, Lord! But why am I rushing up and down like a lunatic?... Now I'm reading your article in the magazine, Rodya; Dmitri Prokofych brought it. I just gasped when I saw it: fool that I am, I thought to myself, this is what he's busy with, this is the solution to it all! Perhaps he has new ideas in his head